City on fire : technology, social change, and the hazards of progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 /

By the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to modernize and industrialize Mexico City had the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing the risk of fire while also breeding a culture of fear. Through an array of archival sources, Anna Rose Alexander argues that fire became a catalyst for social...

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Main Authors: ALEXANDER, ANNA ROSE, Alexander, Anna Rose (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]
Series:History of the urban environment
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